Current-driven atomic waterwheels

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-102

  Dundas, Daniel ^a   McEniry, Eunan J ^a   Todorov, Tchavdar N ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ATOMIC MOTION; ATOMIC SCALE; ATOMIC WIRES; CURRENT-DRIVEN; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL CURRENT;

ATOMS;

NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FORCE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 59849112962     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.411     Document Type: Article

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